CAST-Workshop

Biometrics-BIOSIG2013

Biometrics provides efficient and reliable solutions to recognize
individuals. Growing interests on trustworthiness of authentication
stimulate employment of biometric techniques. Nowadays, biometric
applications can be found in diverse areas such as health monitoring,
national ID cards, e-banking, e-commerce, etc. It rises to challenges of
robustness, reliability, interoperability, scalability, system
reliability and usability. Large-scale applications such as the European
Union Visa Information System (VIS) and Unique Identification (UID) in
India require high accuracy. Multimodal biometrics combined with fusion
techniques can improve recognition performance. Efficient searching or
indexing methods can accelerate identification efficiency. Additionally,
quality of acquired biometric samples can strongly influence the
performance. Quality assessment methods can notonly guarantee success of
authentication but can also provide helpful feedback to system operators
during the capturing process. Recently it was shown, that biometric
recognition with low cost sensors embedded in mobile devices such as
cell phones can improve deployment and acceptance of biometric systems.

Moreover, concerns about security and privacy cannot be neglected. The
relevant techniques in the area of presentation attack detection
(liveness detection) and template protection are about to supplement
biometric systems, in order to improve fake resistance, prevent
potential attacks such as cross matching, identity theft etc.

The BIOSIG 2013 conference addresses these issues and will present
innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future
applications. We invite stakeholders and technical experts to submit
original research papers. Industrial contributions presenting lessons
learned from practical usage, case study, recent results of prototypes,
are also welcomed. You can find the call for papers at:
http://www.biosig.de/biosig2013.